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take a picture
Photograph, as in I'd love to take a picture of your garden. This idiom was first used in the 1600s for making a drawing or other portrayal. It was transferred to photography in the mid-1800s.
Example Sentences
"Sometimes we lose our brains to take a picture, and we don't think about the consequences," says museum director Vanessa Carlon.
There was a Midwestern couple there with their young son and they saw me, and the house manager said, “This couple, they’re going to give us an extra $1,000 if you take a picture with them. Would you mind?”
So I’m posing and the dad goes, “It is our honor to take a picture with you, Mr. LeVar Burton.”
Jurors were shown a photo taken by Alice Whysall-Price, a holidaymaker out for a walk, who is believed to have been the last person to take a picture of the tree intact, the court heard.
The company always had a policy of inviting guests to grab whatever movies they wanted out of the Closet, but this time, according to Becker, their social-media person suggested they take a picture of Del Toro in the Closet and post it online.
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